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Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

By : Magnus Larsson
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Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

By: Magnus Larsson

Overview of this book

Microservices architecture allows developers to build and maintain applications with ease, and enterprises are rapidly adopting it to build software using Spring Boot as their default framework. With this book, you’ll learn how to efficiently build and deploy microservices using Spring Boot. This microservices book will take you through tried and tested approaches to building distributed systems and implementing microservices architecture in your organization. Starting with a set of simple cooperating microservices developed using Spring Boot, you’ll learn how you can add functionalities such as persistence, make your microservices reactive, and describe their APIs using Swagger/OpenAPI. As you advance, you’ll understand how to add different services from Spring Cloud to your microservice system. The book also demonstrates how to deploy your microservices using Kubernetes and manage them with Istio for improved security and traffic management. Finally, you’ll explore centralized log management using the EFK stack and monitor microservices using Prometheus and Grafana. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build microservices that are scalable and robust using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page

Changes in source code for collecting application metrics

Spring Boot 2 supports producing performance metrics in a Prometheus format using the Micrometer library (https://micrometer.io). There's only one change we need to make to the source code: we need to add a dependency to the Micrometer library, micrometer-registry-prometheus, in the Gradle build files, build.gradle, for each microservice. Here, the following dependency has been added:

implementation("io.micrometer:micrometer-registry-prometheus")

This will make the microservices produce Prometheus metrics on port 4004 using the "/actuator/prometheus" URI. To let Prometheus know about these endpoints, each microservice's pod is annotated with the following code:

annotations:
prometheus.io/scrape: "true"
prometheus.io/port: "4004"
prometheus.io/scheme...